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#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Democratizing LLM Training with the Edge: Challenges, Systems, and the Road Ahead

The growing computational power of modern GPU data centers has let a few industrial giants train and deploy large language models (LLMs) on massive amounts of data. Yet the sheer scale of these models and their training data makes centralized development increasingly hard to sustain, and at the same time shuts out smal...

Zi-Yue Luo, Jiaxuan Cai, C. Le Denmat et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Neural Disjunctive Normal Forms for Learning Exact Rank Filters

Gradient-based learning of morphological operators is hindered by locally sparse derivatives with respect to the structuring elements. We develop a method for learning rank filters that retains exact operator evaluation while distributing the derivatives across the window. Using threshold decomposition, we construct a...

Diego Marcondes, Wonder A. L. Alves, Ronaldo F. Hashimoto · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Depth-Dependent Safety Geometry in Vision-Language Models: Layer-Wise Localization and Bidirectional Refusal Control

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) are widely deployed, yet the internal mechanisms behind their safety behavior remain poorly understood. We present a lightweight inference-time framework for localizing and manipulating safety-sensitive representations in frozen VLMs, without retraining or modifying parameters. On Qwen3-VL...

Muhammad Zeeshan Karamat, Syed Talal Hassan, Christiana Chamon Garcia · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Federated Nonparametric Regression with Heterogeneous Clients

Whether a federated predictor benefits an individual client depends on both population heterogeneity and estimation uncertainty. We study this question for Nadaraya--Watson regression in a triangular array with potentially different fitting and evaluation distributions. Each client transmits local kernel summaries, all...

Xiaoran Jiang, Anand N. Vidyashankar · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Solving and Learning Navier-Stokes Dynamics with the Neural Basis Method

Physics-informed machine learning has become a major direction in predictive modeling of fluid dynamics, combining governing physics with learned representations. Yet prevailing formulations neither guarantee that small PDE-residual losses imply small solution errors nor scale effectively with increasing problem size....

Yuhe Wang, Zhu Wang, Min Wang · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

SyncPro: Synchronous Reasoning and Responding for Proactive Streaming Video Understanding

Proactive streaming video understanding requires assistants to track unfolding events and respond when a user's requested condition is met. To make these decisions, assistants must accumulate relevant evidence and reassess response conditions as new observations arrive. Existing work offers complementary capabilities f...

Xueyun Tian, Bingbing Xu, Jiaming Liu et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Conditional Flow Models for Offline Maximum Entropy Reinforcement Learning

Offline maximum entropy reinforcement learning seeks to estimate the optimal soft action-value function \(Q^*\) from a fixed dataset without further interaction with the environment. Although \(Q^*\) is characterized by the soft optimal Bellman equation, the corresponding Bellman operator cannot be evaluated directly b...

Hao Cheng, Yu-Ling Jiao, Li-Can Kang et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Semantically Rich, Metrically Affect-Blind: A Geometric Blind Spot in Modern Text Embedders

We report a systematic dissociation in modern text embedders: sentiment is almost perfectly decodable from their embeddings, yet almost entirely absent from their metric. Across eleven frozen encoders spanning 2021 to 2026, including 2026-generation models and the 4B-parameter LLM embedder Qwen3-Embedding-4B, a linear...

Mahdi Naser Moghadasi · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

RADIANT: Object-Centric Feed-Forward Global Illumination

Feed-forward neural renderers synthesize global illumination across novel 3D scenes without per-scene optimization or runtime ray tracing. Existing transformer-based renderers tokenize individual triangles, so self-attention scales quadratically with mesh resolution. Yet macroscopic radiative transport is governed by t...

Sarah Zhang, Zhiyang Dou, Minghao Guo et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

How Much Do You Trust A Dog? Quantifying Hint-Following in Reasoning Language Models

Large language models (LLMs) often exhibit sycophancy, altering their answers to align with user suggestions even on objective factual and reasoning tasks. Yet the quantitative form of this influence--- and whether it is calibrated to source reliability--- remains poorly understood. In this work, we investigate this be...

An-Xin Guo, Chirag Pabbaraju, Sara Ahmadian et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

A Dynamic Inventory Rationing Model for Last-Mile Delivery of Medication in Liberia's Community Health Program

We study the dynamic allocation of scarce medications in Liberia's community health program. A central warehouse supplies a health facility and the Community Health Assistants (CHAs) it supervises. When a CHA runs out of medication, patients are referred to the facility, incurring travel costs if they complete the refe...

Baris Ata, Yufan Chen, Robert Montgomery · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

NUViT: Vision Transformers for Fourier Space Data

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have demonstrated strong performance in many computer vision tasks but do not naturally extend beyond the natural image domain. One important example is Fourier-space data, which is used to represent a rich and diverse set of modalities, including medical imaging and microscopy. Standard ViT...

Jeffrey Gu, Robert C. Heeter, Ellen D. Zhong · 0 citations

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Microsoft Research Blog Nov 3, 2026

Learn the rules: The hacker mindset

Research Manager Mike Walker reflects on a career spanning hacker culture, cybersecurity, and AI, sharing lessons about trust, teamwork, leadership, and why solving difficult problems requires curiosity, judgment, agility—and an understanding of the rules. The post Learn the rules: The hacker mindset appeared first on Microsoft Research.

Google DeepMind Blog Nov 3, 2026

Agentic cheminformatics with Google Antigravity

Learn how Google Antigravity and our Cheminformatics Skills accelerate drug discovery workflows, search compounds, and propose novel rigidified macrocycles.

MIT News · Artificial Intelligence Oct 28, 2026

Making machines that can listen

Professor Paris Smaragdis develops computers with superhuman hearing for applications like speech recognition, music understanding, and environmental monitoring.

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